Reflector attachment for ovens.



PATELITED 1150. s, 1903.; 'W. 0. TROWBR'IDGE. REFLECTOR ATTACHMENT FOR OVENS.

APPLICATION TILED 0015.24, 1902.

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* "UNITE STATES Patented December 8, 1.903.

WILBUR O. TROWBRIDGE, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

REFLECTOR ATTACHMENT FOR OVENS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.746,203, dated December 8, 1903. Application filed October 24, 1902. Serial No, 128.622. 7 (No model.)

To 0,66 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILBUR C. TRoW- BRIDGE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Reflector 'Attachinents for Ovens; and I hereby declare the following to be a full,olea r, and exact description of the same.

tachments for gas-stoves and the like where by the condition of the flame may be easily ascertained without the necessity of stooping or bending in order to look into the chamber in which the burner is usually inclosed.

In many gas-stoves upon the market the burner is situated within the oven-chamber in such position that it is necessary to stoop over or even kneel in orderto regulate the flame or to see even if the gas is lighted. Such a position is awkward and, moreover, extremely tiring for the housewife; and it is the object of my invention to render it possible, by means of reflectors disposed either inside or outside of the oven, to see at all times the condition of the blaze and not require that the eye should be brought on a level with or beneath the burner.

Having reference to the accompanying drawings for a more complete explanation of my invention, Figure l is a partial view of gas-stove, showing my invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of door, showing application. Fig. 3 is a modification of my invention. Fig. 4is another modification of same.

A represents an oven-chamber, here-represented as divided horizontally by means of a represents the usual gas-stove construction. The door 5 or the walls of the oven may or may not have an aperture through which the burner may be observed from time to time as necessity requires, as when it is desired to My invention relates to improvements in aton a ledge on the door.

vary the temperature of the oven and a greater or less flame is essential. As the burner is comparatively close to the floor, it becomes necessary for the housewife or cook to stoop or squat or knee] in order to see into the chamber in which the burneris situated while the gas-cock is being manipulated to get just the flame desired.

.requiring the operator to change his or her normal uprightposition further than to bend the head slightly, so that the line of vision i projected downward.

In Fig. 2 the door 5 is shown with an apertu re 7, extending horizontally nearly the width of the oven. In such a case the reflector 6 is held at an angle of about forty-five degrees by means of brackets secured to the door, or, as here shown, by the spring-clips 8, having one end attached to the door above the aperture and provided with kink portions 9, engagingover the upper edge ofthe reflector.

This form of attachment allows the reflector to be readily set in position or knocked down, as for shipment. The operator has only to glance do Wnward and the burner will be visible when the gas is lighted.

The reflector may be secured in the walls of the combustion-chamber, as indicated-in Fig. 3. Again, it may be secured tothe inside of door 5, (which latter is hinged at the bottom, as at 10,) as in Fig. 4.. By stooping just sufiiciently to open the door the reflector will be tilted at such an angle as to render the lighted burner visible to the operator.

It is obvious that a plurality of reflectors might be used in combinationto give the results above noted, and I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to a single reflector nor to the precise location of the reflector in reference to a luminous oven-chamber,except that the reflector should be located in the draft-opening, where it .will be protected from heat by the constant'indraft.

- Having thus described myinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters 'Patout, is

The lower edge, of the latter rests too 1. In a stove, the combination with an ovenheat by the indraft, and spring holding means chamber having a ventilating-opening said for the reflector said reflector capable of prochamber inclosing a burner, of a reflector pojecting an image of the burner exterior to the sitioned in line with the said opening and oven.

5 thereby protected from heat by the constant In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my :5

indraft. hand.

2. Inastove, the combination withanoven- WILBUR C. TROWBRIDGE. chamber inclosing a burner and having an Witnesses: opening for indraft, of a movable reflector S. H. NOURSE,

10 located in said opening, and protected from JESSIE G. BRODIE. 

